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Remembering Floyd is like remembering a childhood friend. Thank you for bringing him to mind once again.

For my money, one of the greatest female game characters ever is Alisa Landale from the original Phantasy Star. She's attractive but not ridiculously sexualized. She's also strong and capable; besides being the all-around strongest character in combat, she takes up the game's main quest on...

"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome." From "Burning Chrome," a short story by William Gibson. (Okay, I cheated a bit, since it's not really a novel.)

SW:TOR needs two things to make it full of awesome. 1) Only Jedi classes. Forget trying to balance classes like Morally Ambiguous Smuggler and Short-Order Cook against the radi-coolness of Jedi; it can't be done. Just give us Jedi classes, and a City of Heroes-inspired power level in which...